Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-01-01

| hes sustained the cause of education with
q greater Hberality. The Hon. John Eaton,
| United States Commissioner of Education,
| in late report says: The High School of
| Stockton takes high rank" There are up
| wards of 5000 children in the city, forty
teachers employed and S1S5, 900 invested in
| school buildings.
VARIETIES OF SOIL.
The soil of this county is varied. 1t con.
tains an assortment of clay loan, sandy
loan, black adobe, sandy red clay, and re-
claimed and unreclaimed overfiowed lands.
Along the eastern verge of the county and
in the southwestern extremity there is a
little rolling and billy land. Nearly one
quarter of the entire area of the county is
| rich overlooked lands, larger portion of
which is under reclamation. Taking the
adobe or the loan soils, which together
constitute the largest and best part
of the county, it is found that they
are not uniform in character
The black lands especially vary more
or less in friability and heaviness
In the western part of the county towards
the river they are blacker and heavier :;
eastward, they are deeper and lighter The
red lands are found in the northern and
northeastern portions. 1t has proved to be
excellent wheat land, but when properly
worked is more profitable in fruits. 1t va
rieS in depth, but most of it is strong en-
during soil.
WINDMILL IRRIGATION FOR SMALL FRUITS,
Berries, ETC., has proved great success on
these lands. They support strong, healthy
growth of wood, and crops are uniformly
good Many of these lands can be OBJ
tanned at from SIS to $40 per acre, accord
ing to locality. The loan lands are found
! in the northern and southern parts of the
county. The whole Mokelumne river ba-
sin is a magnificent body of this kind,
much of it being tirst-class garden loam
This is the Liveoakn country, so called
from the liveoak tree growth covering it.
For twenty years the chief product of
the Liveoakn farmer has been wheat
The more wideawake husbandman has not
lost the opportunity to demonstrate that
; for table grapes. almonds apricots, pears,
prunes peaches, figs, and for all kinds of
small fruits-such as raspberries, straw
berries, blackberries, currants, etc.-this
soil cannot be improved upon.
A great reservoir of water extends under
the loan lands, and is a never falling sup
ply of water to this district Whether the
year is unusually dry or wet, no difference
is discovered in the underground water
Level. Its source is IN perennial and eternal
fountains. A three-inch well, bored to the
Z depth of % feet, affords
AN INEXHAUsTIBLE WATER SUPPLY
Throughout the year These loan lands
along the Mokelu1hne are valuable yet
Many of them can be purchased at from
$40 to $50 an acre. Along the Mokelumne
river are to be found thousands of acres of
rich bottom lands, that are luxuiiously
productive. Absolutely everything that
has been planted in this kind of land has
made prodigious growth. -Four crops of al
! falfa, making six to eight tons of good hay
Ter year, are usually taken from it. Corn,
sixty bushels, and barley, fifty bushels to
the acre, are the average. Crops of hops
and potatoes, fruits and sorts of garden